The W.K. Kellogg Foundation funded the Systems Change Lab to gather insights on a new Child Care Quality Support System for Mississippi. To accomplish this task, a team of individuals representing the Mississippi Early Learning Alliance, Excel by 5, Mississippi First, child care providers, and a parent was formed, with technical assistance from the Build Initiative and Child Care State Capacity Building Center. This team convened early childhood educators from across Mississippi to create a set of recommendations for a new Child Care Quality Improvement System for Mississippi.
Ongoing work with the Mississippi Department of Human Services will be funded through the Preschool Development Grant Birth-Five. To learn more about this project and the recommendations, please visit the website for the Forum for the Future, a consortium of organizations working to improve early childhood services: Forum for the Future and/or read the final project report here: Full Report